Sheaf Saint

Impressed with Tella so far.

A fit and in form Danny Ings is undoubtedly our best player. Unfortunately, he hasn't been both of those things since before his injury in December. Perhaps a rest/dropping will do him good.

And the only thing he did was give away a FK.

A point! We got a point! Had forgotten how that felt TBH.

If Grealish had been on the receiving end of what he's had today, imagine how many cards would have been dished out.

Who had 80th minute in the 'dropped points from winning positions' stat sweepstake?

When was the last time we were awarded a penalty? And actually got to take it - I know there was the one in the Wolves cup game that was rightly ruled as being outside the box by VAR.

Don't think so. I can't recall him ever even going the right way.

Was clearly a penalty but the ref couldn't wait to give it. Seems like there's never any hesitation in giving them against us these days, but they find any excuse not to give them for us.

They did. Nothing doing.

Good job they didn't score from that corner. The header from the FK was offside and would have been ruled out if Macca hadn't saved it.

This is just painful to watch. Nearly half an hour played and we haven't mounted anything even resembling a meaningful attack. Ings has barely had a single touch. Doesn't look like anyone understands the formation and there's no intensity whatsoever.

You're on your own with this one Whitey. Literally everyone else knows that saying "beaten at the near post" means the ball going between the keeper and the near post. I will acknowledge, though, that Forster would probably have saved that.

It wasn't at his near post.

It wasn't near post.

And there it is. Heading for a club record 6 consecutive defeats. No way we're coming back from this.

Finally showed the replay of the handball shout. If the Bertrand one is a penalty then so is that. This inconsistency is fucking infuriating.

I'd need to see it again, but it looked to me like it brushed his upper right arm first, in which case the same rule should have been applied as to Matty Cash's one.

Oh fuck off. If that's a penalty but the Villa one wasn't then the game is fucked. Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.

He was pretty instrumental in their comeback from 2-0 down to beat us 3-2 IIRC.

Wow. Doesn't feel like it.

OK, replay showed him behind the ball when it was played. TBF it wasn't clear from the angles they showed originally and looked clearly off.

Oh what a novelty it is to be sitting her basking in a decent Saints win for once. I've been finding lockdown pretty tough recently, and our terrible form really hasn't helped in lifting my mood, but I actually feel more positive and generally alive this evening than I have since before Xmas. Thank you Saints.

That's gutting for Barnsley (or the Dingles, as they're called around here) Such a blatant offside that would so obviously have been called by VAR if they had it.

Clearly the right call though.